Prose Syllabus

Subject Description
Subject
: Prose
Credit
:2
Semester
:6
Prerequisite : Introduction to Literature
Lecturer
: Santiana, S.S., M.Pd.
Rima Hermawati, S.Pd.

Course Description
Prose is one of literary genres which stands beside poetry and drama. This class aims at enhancing the students
reading comprehension deeper with wider variety of prose in term of genre, time, and complexity. The students are
going to dive short stories, novels, and other narrative writing from romance, action, horror to fantasy of the older
time to more modern ones. Discussion will be directed to both the structural elements and more ideological issues
within and hopefully beyond the texts. Discipline in reading, is emphasized in this course, as this course is also
meant to prepare students to have good capability in teaching English through literary works especially prose.
Objectives
By the end of the course, the students are able to:
1. Acquaint with short fiction; the basic elements of fiction and the use of those elements in the stories discussed.
2. Provide a conceptual framework to analyze short stories and novels based on intrinsic and extrinsic elements.
3. Develop their ability to produce written and oral critical literary works; especially short stories, novels, and other narrative
writings.
4. Use literary works, especially prose, to teach English.

Evaluation:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Attendance
Daily Journal
Presentation
Middle Test
Final Test

Course Outline
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: The course will cover the following areas.

Topic and sub topic

Introduction to the course:

Course Description
Objectives
Evaluation
Course Outline
Taken a contract
Giving Motivation
Peer and Group
Division

Objective

Classroom activity

Students are able to have the idea about the course coverage
and requirements

Introduction to Prose
Students are able to:
Genres of Prose
Distinguish kinds of prose
A Highlight of English Identify the existence of English Prose
Prose History (OldAcquaint with the literary works focus of the course
Middle-Modern)
(short story and novel)
Short Story and Novel
Exploring Short Story I:
Students are able to:
PLOT
Explain the plot of the short story given
(A Ghost by Mark Twain) Criticize and explore the plot by their own perspective.

- Explanation
- Question and
Answer
- Discussions

Lecturing
Question and
Answers
Discussion

Peer Work
Personal

Follow Up
- Knowing the Genres of Prose
- Looking for the History of
English Prose
- Preparing ten titles of short
stories and novels and their
writers.

Preparing to analyze the PLOT

of a story

Preparing to analyze the

SETTING of a story

Week

Dat
e

Topic and sub topic

Objective

Classroom activity
-

Presentation
Question and
Answer

Exploring Short Story II:

SETTING
(A Stolen by Epic
Randomness)

Exploring Short Story III:

Students are able to:
Character and
Find out and explain the characters and characterization Characterization
from the short story given
(The Happy Prince by
Criticize and explore the character and characterization Oscar Wilde)
of the short story by their own perspectives

Peer Work
Personal
Presentation
Question and
Answer

Preparing to analyze the

THEME AND POINT OF
VIEW of a story

Exploring Short Story IV:

Students are able to
Theme and Point of View Find out and explain the theme and point of view from (The Wives of the Dead by
the short story given
Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Criticize and explore the theme and point of view of the short story by their own perspectives

Peer Work
Personal
Presentation
Question and
Answer

Preparing to analyze the

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
of a story

Exploring Short Story V:

Students are able to
Figurative Language
Find out and explain the figurative language from the
The End of the Party by
short story given
Graham Greene
Criticize and explore the theme and point of view of the short story by their own perspectives.

Peer Work
Personal
Presentation
Question and
Answer

Preparing for the Mid-Test

8
9

Exploring Novel I
PLOT, SETTING,
THEME, CHARACTER
AND

Students are able to:

Explain the setting of the short story given
Criticize and explore the setting by their own
perspectives.

Follow Up

Peer Work
Personal
Presentation
Question and
Answer

MIDDLE TES/UTS
Students are able to
- To express the ideas of the passage orally and in writing. - To enjoy reading and writing.
-

Peer Work
Group Discussion
Group

Preparing to analyze the

CHARACTER AND
CHARACTERIZATION of a
story

Week

10

11

12

13

Dat
e

Topic and sub topic

Objective

Classroom activity

CHARACTERIZATION, ,
POINT OF VIEW,
FIGURATIVE
LANGUAGE

To develop their imagination.

Exploring Novel II
PLOT, SETTING,
THEME, CHARACTER
AND
CHARACTERIZATION,
POINT OF VIEW,
FIGURATIVE
LANGUAGE

Students are able to

- To express the ideas of the passage orally and in writing. - To enjoy reading and writing.
- To develop their imagination
-

Exploring Novel III

PLOT, SETTING,
THEME, CHARACTER
AND
CHARACTERIZATION,
POINT OF VIEW,
FIGURATIVE
LANGUAGE

Students are able to

- To express the ideas of the passage orally and in writing. - To enjoy reading and writing.
- To develop their imagination
-

Exploring Novel IV
PLOT, SETTING,
THEME, CHARACTER
AND
CHARACTERIZATION,
POINT OF VIEW,
FIGURATIVE
LANGUAGE

Students are able to

- To express the ideas of the passage orally and in writing. - To enjoy reading and writing.
- To develop their imagination
-

Exploring Novel V

Students are able to

Follow Up

Presentation
Question and
Answer
Teachers
Feedback
Peer Work
Group Discussion
Group
Presentation
Question and
Answer
Teachers
Feedback
Peer Work
Group Discussion
Group
Presentation
Question and
Answer
Teachers
Feedback
Peer Work
Group Discussion
Group
Presentation
Question and
Answer
Teachers
Feedback
Peer Work

Week

Dat
e

Topic and sub topic

Objective

Classroom activity

PLOT, SETTING,
THEME, CHARACTER
AND
CHARACTERIZATION,
POINT OF VIEW,
FIGURATIVE
LANGUAGE

14

READ AND DRAW

15
16

Students are able to portray the best scene in the novel in the form of drawings.

FINAL TEST/UAS

Review material

To express the ideas of the passage orally and in writing.

To enjoy reading and writing.
To develop their imagination
-

Follow Up

Group Discussion
Group
Presentation
Question and
Answer
Teachers
Feedback
Peers presentation

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